Sprinkle a little love and a dollop of food, and you get sweet romantic cooking movies. Cooking is a natural way to bring people together, which is why it works so well as part of a romance storyline. Chefs specialise in different cuisines and have different ways of running their kitchens. Our fascination with cooking is evident in TV shows like MasterChef and Hell’s Kitchen, but it also translates to the big screen. Here are 10 cooking movies that use food to bring two people together.
1. A Dash of Love
Starring: Jen Lilley and Brendan Penny
Plot: When an aspiring chef lands an assistant job at her idol’s restaurant, she’s convinced her big break is just around the corner. After a rocky start, she befriends the handsome executive chef, and they begin bonding in the kitchen. But her joy is short-lived when she discovers her idol’s stealing her recipes and fires them both to protect her secret. Together, they set out to create their own pop-up restaurant and discover the most important ingredient is love.
2. A Taste Of Romance
Starring: Teri Polo and James Patrick Stuart
Plot: Uptight French chef Sara Westbrook gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a neighbouring new restaurant led by handsome former firefighter Gill Callahan. Sara suddenly softens when she meets Gill’s ten-year-old daughter Hannah (Bailee Madison), who she can’t help but take under her wing when she learns Hannah is growing up without a mom. Can the couple resist the temptation to compete, or will the heat of competition drive them apart?
3. Always Be My Maybe
Starring: Ali Wong and Randall Park
Plot: Everyone assumed childhood friends Sasha and Marcus would wind up together except for them. Marcus’s Korean-American mother taught Sasha how to cook, and she grew up to be a successful restaurateur, while Marcus works for his widowed dad and sings in his talented but unsuccessful band. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder… maybe?
4. Burnt
Starring: Sienna Miller and Bradley Cooper
Plot: Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behaviour. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars. Helene is a talented sous-chef he hires to join his team as he prepares for the grand opening of the hotel restaurant.
5. Little Italy
Starring: Claire Forlani and Dougray Scott
Plot: Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real-life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye – and taste buds – of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts – and their stomachs – full.
6. Love’s Kitchen
Starring: Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen
Plot: Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
7. No Reservations
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart
Plot: Kate is a top chef, entirely dedicated to her work, but when her sister is killed in a car accident, she becomes the guardian of her nine-year-old niece, Zoe (Abigail Breslin). Tension and attraction rise when rising star Nick is hired to join the kitchen.
8. Ratatouille
Starring: Janeane Garofalo and Lou Romano
Plot: A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with Linguini, a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant. Colette Tatou, the restaurant’s only female chef, teaches Remy and Linguini how to cook.
9. Recipe for Love
Starring: Danielle Panabaker and Shawn Roberts
Plot: Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist who dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss offers her a bonus if she agrees to ghostwrite the cookbook of a difficult celebrity chef, Lauren sees her dream becoming a reality as soon as she can tame the notorious bad boy chef in question, Dexter Durant. Slowly peeling back the layers of Dexter’s tough-guy persona, she starts seeing a different, vulnerable side to this big-shot chef.
10. The Princess and the Frog
Starring: Anika Noni Rose and Keith David
Plot: Tiana is a waitress, desperate to fulfil her dreams as a restaurant owner, who makes a deal to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
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